Are you even shocked…
Prosecutors in Wisconsin are considering charges today after a Maplewood man was arrested for allegedly leaving his 18-month-old son in a van outside a strip club for several hours Wednesday night.
The police report filed in the case said that while the 45-year-old man lounged inside the Cajun Club in St. Croix County in Wisconsin, temperatures outside dipped into the low 20s.
A customer entering the hilltop club overlooking Stillwater about 1 a.m. Thursday told staff there was a baby crying in a van outside, said manager Tess Ross. She went to look.
“I was shocked,” she said. “I couldn’t believe it was a little baby. I felt so bad.”
After checking to see that the doors of the van were locked, she called 911.
Hillstead said the little boy was found wearing socks, a jacket, and sweat pants. He was taken to a hospital in Hudson, Wis., where he was treated for exposure and frostbite. By Friday, the boy was released into his mother’s custody.
“He’s just lucky it wasn’t 10 degrees colder, or that baby could have been in serious trouble,” Hillstead said.
The man was arrested on suspicion of neglect of a child, a misdemeanor, and booked into the county jail. The man’s wife posted $250 bail early Thursday.